John-a-Dreams (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781468032802)

The author is a true small-town success story. From roots as publisher of a weekly newspaper in a small farming town with just over a thousand people, his professional journey brought him to the pinnacle of his business as the only North Dakotan ever to serve as president of the National Newspaper Association. He has been the recipient of that organizations highest honor, the Amos Award. He was the first living North Dakota publisher chosen for the North Dakota Newsapaper Hall of Fame. And he was awarded the North Dakota Governor's National Leadership Award of Excellence. When his son came home to assume the reins of the family newspaper, becoming the third generation in family publishing, the author launched a new career as a North Dakota State Senator that has lasted for twenty years. In his retirement he took pride in pursuit of philanthropy, in which he has given back more dollars to his community than he took from it in his publishing career. And yet his book will remind you that family has been the most important thing in his life, and you will sense through his writing a myriad of heart touching snapshots of births, high school graduations, marriages, grandchildren, and most of all, the deep lifelong love affair he had with his wife who died from cancer in 2008.